Doctor who and the brain eating zombies
I guess what attracted me to this novel was the front cover, and also because it was Doctor Who. This was a time between the two incarnations of the series and the only things that we could turn to to get our Doctor Who fix, or at least a fix from an original story, was the novels. Things have changed now, and with the new Doctor Who series (and the multiple spinoffs) we also have a new series of books based on the new Doctor and his companions. However, with this one we go back to the Fourth Doctor, Romana II (as she is called, though I can never remember the Doctor actually calling her 'Romana II') and K9.
I just loved K9. He was one of the most unique companion of the Doctor. He is the only companion (with the exception of Susan and Romana) that is not truly human. Every other companion is either human, or looks human (Romana and Susan are time lords). Further, a majority of his companions are also female, though in the older series (and even in the books) there is generally no sexual tension between them. In fact, the only character in the old series that would likely attract the Doctor's attention would be Romana (since they are both Time Lords).
The new series it is somewhat different as most of the female companions (read Rose Tyler and Amy Pond) seem to develop a strong attraction to the Doctor, much more than the other companions, even in the books. This is one of the things that annoys me. There is also his love interest that has appeared, River Song, which is a little annoying, however we do need to consider that Susan was the Doctor's Grand Daughter and this suggests that he has had a love interest, though it is difficult to say when (and it is possible that it could turn out to be River Song).
There is probably not that much to say about this book. It involves brain eating zombies and a sentient mist that is attempting to escape a time corridor. Personally I really cannot remember much about this book, though I note that many of them are actually quite hard to get these days (if the prices on Amazon are anything to go by), and I am not sure if I really want to have another bunch of books on my too read shelf. This is more so since one of my friends keeps dumping books on me to read, and I would hardly call any of these books literature (though we will see when I get to Game of Thrones).
